ISRAEL: Ingathering Restricted

On no single issue had Israelis been so
fiercely unanimous as on the kibbutz galuyoththe ingathering of the
exiles. Immediately after independence, the very first act of the new
state was to declare immigration wide open. A year ago, Prime Minister
David Ben-Gurion, Israel's George Washington, said flatly: "It was for
mass immigration that the state was established, and by virtue of this
alone that it will stand."

In 3½ years the Israelis brought in 665,000 newcomers, more than
doubling the population. It was as though the U.S. were.to import 50
million new people every year. At one point "Operation...